Esther Pressoir Suggesting more than environmental home

Suggesting more than environmental home improvements

a trained botanical illustrator and scholar

conveyed in styles and colours that aped the crude but powerful printing processes of mass advertising

and has witnessed her journey from unique talent to radical visionary

Overcoming historical challenges within architectural practice

Esther Pressoir Suggesting more than environmental homeEsther Pressoir: A Modern Womans Painter situates Esther Estelle Pressoirs body of work within the effervescent art scene of the early 20th century, both in America and abroad. The first book to present the wide ranging oeuvre of this American modernist, it covers the span of Pressoirs long life (1902 86) with a particular focus on the interwar decades (1920 40). Coming of age in the 1920s, Stella, as she was known to her friends, cast off societal